Ever think about how a modern Trek show even had a Tellarite main character and another Tellarite on the main bridge crew of the show and after 40 episodes we learned maybe 2 things about Tellarites
I guess I forgot to post this but - last year I made a bunch of star trek OCs ! They're a group of friends who all serve abord the USS T'Sera during the late TNG era. I just really wanted to design a friend group made up of the four original federation founding members lol
They're on my ArtFight if anyone here participates
Here's some info about them :
Khov is a xenobiologist. Quite the Andorian history nerd, he won't shut up about the Ch'eraotherh Dynasty (his Roman Empire).
His naturally emotional disposition as an Andorian especially expresses itself when he's nervous or under some pressure, making him seem jumpy or easily panicked. But he's as capable of doing his job and performing under pressure as any other Starfleet officer - externalizing his emotions is just the way he regulates and keeps a cool head.
He's usually well spoken and witty (you need to when you're friends with Rog and Ketis) but when it comes to romantic encounters he easily gets flustered. He has a (not-so) secret crush on the chief of security of the T'Sera, which he is very embarrassed about
Nadia is a relief helmsman. She's very eager and optimistic, and motivated to move up in the ranks. She loves piloting and daydreams about saving the whole ship with her prowess at the helm (and maybe even have a maneuver named after her, why not !)
She's a space native, her parents worked on a deep-space cargo freighter.
She often appears chill and the "reasonable middle ground" in her friend's heated debates (which they call "human mediator syndrome").
She also loves discussing couple gossip and gives a lot of romantic advice despite never having been in a romantic relationship herself (she's probably aroace but hasn't really thought about it)
Rog is a security officer. He first met Ketis on his arrival day during his medical checkup - during which he got into one of the most fun arguments in his life, and they've been best friends since then.
He values honesty and despises bootlickers and people pleasers. In that he counts those who try to start an argument with him as a pleasing tactic - he wants his debates to be genuine, thank you very much !
He's also a bit of an order and cleanliness freak.
His job at security made him very observant and perceptive . He's also capable of functioning on very little sleep.
Ketis a medical technician. He genuinely enjoys his friend group of varied emotional species, he finds it stimulating and an intellectual challenge (as well as a test of his emotional repression). He also finds their reasoning and points of view interesting and is always taking them into consideration. All this makes him pretty critical of some vulcans' arrogance and sense of superiority over other species, which he considers an to be an emotional response.
He particularly likes debating and can hold a friendly argument tirelessly, which is always good when being friends with a Tellarite.
He suffers from motion/space sickness, which is rare for a vulcan - and especially for a vulcan in starfleet. He sort of became infamous for it on the ship after an incident where he threw up on the Captain (who he was taking care of in sickbay during a red alert). Good thing he's purely logical because that'd be really embarrassing !
I think instead of a first officer, a Tellarite captain should employ someone whose sole purpose is to push back against everything they say and lowkey try to start a mutiny. Mutinies are non-violent, at regular intervals there is always a ship wide debate and vote and if you're voted out you leave and the other person becomes captain and employs someone else to fill their old position. Crucially, this doesn't lead to a more disorganized ship. It's to be expected. Though that does mean most Tellarite captains have been the captain of more ships than other species.
People who've captain'd one ship for a number of years are considered incredibly skilled and are venerated for their ability to defend their position for so long.
We really need to have a discussion about toxic positivity and how being nice and polite isn't always the best way to treat people. Your tellarite crewmember needs you to argue with them. It's enrichment. You need to know how to tell them to their face that their analysis of a situation looks like it was thrown together by a drunken targ or they won't be healthy.
